1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000
No, this is not the setting for a rock concert.

2
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000
This is the scene for the
fourth annual computer bowl.

3
00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:10,001
But we do have our pop stars here tonight
performing on this stage later tonight

4
00:00:10,001 --> 00:00:16,000
will be Wild Bill Gates, Dr. John Warnock,
Heidi Roysen, Andy MC Rappaport, and

5
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,001
Bill McCrone and an all-star cast of
computer celebrities set to do battle.

6
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000
Now last year the East Coast techies
embarrassed the West Coast nerds to regain

7
00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000
the computer trivia title so this year
it's the revenge of the nerds from the

8
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000
West to see who will be number one in 1992.

9
00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,001
So pick your team, play along with us
as we bring you Computer Bowl 4 on this

10
00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:39,001
special edition of Computer Chronicles.

11
00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,001
Computer Chronicles has been made
possible in part by PC Connection and

12
00:00:58,001 --> 00:01:02,001
MacConnection, mail order software and
hardware peripherals for the PC and the

13
00:01:02,001 --> 00:01:08,000
Macintosh, and the Software Publishers
Association, providers of educational

14
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,001
materials to help manage software.

15
00:01:10,001 --> 00:01:11,001
Don't copy that floppy.

16
00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,001
Good evening ladies and gentlemen
and coppers of all ages.

17
00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000
Good evening, this is the Computer Museum's
1992 annual computer bowl version 4.0

18
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000
known as Computer Bowl 4 and
presented by the Association

19
00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,001
for Computing Machinery.

20
00:01:33,001 --> 00:01:38,000
We're here tonight in Boston at the Park
Plaza Castle for what has been billed

21
00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000
as the hassle in the castle.

22
00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:44,000
We're on the East Coast because the East
Coast team won last year for the second

23
00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,001
time to bring home the bacon, but more
importantly to bring home that beautiful

24
00:01:48,001 --> 00:01:53,000
computer bowl, a symbol of a TKO,
a technology knockout.

25
00:01:54,001 --> 00:01:58,000
We have a room full,
or should I say a castle full, of East

26
00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000
Coast fans here I assume, right?

27
00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000
East Coast fans?

28
00:02:01,001 --> 00:02:02,000
[...]

29
00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,001
But we are joined tonight by live
audiences connected via satellite at Xerox

30
00:02:12,001 --> 00:02:14,000
Park in Palo Alto, California.

31
00:02:14,001 --> 00:02:15,000
You guys out there?

32
00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:17,001
Yes.

33
00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,001
And at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond,
Washington.

34
00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000
You guys out there?

35
00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000
Let's assume so.

36
00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:27,001
All right, you West Coasties out there,
here we go.

37
00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:31,001
Without further ado,
let me introduce the challengers from the West.

38
00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000
In this corner over here from the Mass
Park Computer Corporation, Jeff the

39
00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000
Killer, Calb.

40
00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,000
From Alex Brown and Sons Ruth Ann,
the mighty Quinlan.

41
00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,001
From Slate Corporation, Vern the Ace Rayburn.

42
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000
From Adobe Systems, Dr.
John Knock Knock, Warnock.

43
00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,001
And last but not least, the captain
of the West Coast team from the Asset

44
00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:20,001
Management Company, John Future Shock.

45
00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000
All right, now let's turn.

46
00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:32,001
What's in that?

47
00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:33,001
What's in that, John?

48
00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,001
John, okay.

49
00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000
All right,
what can the East Coast do about that?

50
00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,001
Here we go, the opposing corner.

51
00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:46,000
The home team, the defending world champions
of computer trivia, the East Coast

52
00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000
team, starring from Ziff Davis Bill,
the Elbow McCrone.

53
00:04:07,001 --> 00:04:10,001
Also performing at this evening's recital.

54
00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,001
From Fluent Incorporated, Dr.
David Half Nelson.

55
00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:30,001
From the Mortuary Firm, no, I'm sorry.

56
00:04:30,001 --> 00:04:36,000
From the Technology Research Group,
Andy MC Rappaport.

57
00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000
From Well Sleep Communications,
Paul Bearer Severino.

58
00:04:52,001 --> 00:04:57,000
And finally, the captain of the defending
champions from the East from Bachman

59
00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000
Information Systems,
Charlie Johann Sebastian Bachman.

60
00:05:08,001 --> 00:05:10,001
Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

61
00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000
The dignity, please.

62
00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,001
All right,
here's how we're going to play the game.

63
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000
The black against the black.

64
00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,001
All right, there are going to be
four rounds in the computer bowl.

65
00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,001
Round one, round two, round three.

66
00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,001
East Coast, round four, very good.

67
00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:34,000
Now in each round,
there will be two kinds of questions.

68
00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:36,000
There are toss-up questions.

69
00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:37,001
They'll be worth 10 points each.

70
00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,001
Any individual player on either
team can answer a toss-up question.

71
00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000
There are also special bonus
round questions which will be

72
00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,001
directed to one team only.

73
00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000
These will be multi-part questions
worth up to 30 points per bonus round.

74
00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:55,000
The bonus round questions can be answered
only by the team captain, though

75
00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000
members of that team may consult
with the captain before he answers.

76
00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:04,000
If your answer to a toss-up question is wrong,
any player from the other team

77
00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,001
will have a chance to answer that same
question and also get the 10 points.

78
00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000
If you ring the buzzer before we have
finished asking the question and your

79
00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000
answer is wrong, the opposing team gets a
chance to answer that question, and the

80
00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000
question is then worth 20 points.

81
00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:20,001
So if you are a gambler, be sure.

82
00:06:21,001 --> 00:06:27,000
Okay, remember panelists, you must ring
your buzzer, be recognized by me before

83
00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000
you answer the question or
your answer will not count.

84
00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:31,001
The question will go to the other team,
and they'll just

85
00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:33,000
repeat what you said and get all the points.

86
00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000
Now we know how argumentative all you guys
can be, so we have two resident expert

87
00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000
judges appropriately adorned out
there whose job it will be to decide

88
00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000
on any disputed answers.

89
00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,001
From the East Coast,
the MVP of last year's winning East Coast

90
00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:50,001
team, Hamala Mokordik, your honor.

91
00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,001
And from the West, the captain of the
West Coast team last year, president of

92
00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:02,000
team-acre company Heidi Poisson-Royson.

93
00:07:06,001 --> 00:07:10,001
And to make sure everything is all above
board here, since I know how seriously

94
00:07:10,001 --> 00:07:14,001
all you guys take this game,
all computer bowl answers have been verified

95
00:07:14,001 --> 00:07:17,000
accurate by the International Data Corporation.

96
00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000
And the scoring is being supervised
by someone from Price Waterhouse.

97
00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:25,001
Are you ready to play?

98
00:07:26,001 --> 00:07:31,000
Alright, it is my pleasure now to
introduce to you the West Coast MVP from

99
00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:36,001
Computer Bowl II, the official examiner
from Computer Bowl III, a man who could

100
00:07:36,001 --> 00:07:40,001
not be more famous among computer users
unless he pulled up Lee Iacocca and

101
00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:42,001
started doing those Windows
commercials himself.

102
00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,001
The chairman of the board of Microsoft,
Bill Gates.

103
00:07:56,001 --> 00:08:00,000
Alright, ladies and gentlemen,
start your brains.

104
00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000
Bill, got the secret questions?

105
00:08:05,001 --> 00:08:05,001
I do.

106
00:08:05,001 --> 00:08:08,000
Okay, we are ready to begin.

107
00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000
Here is your first toss-up
question worth ten points.

108
00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,001
Infoworld columnist Robert
Cringley has written a book

109
00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:18,000
entitled, Accidental Empires.

110
00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:24,000
There is a lengthy subtitle to the book
which begins, How the Boys of Silicon

111
00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,001
Valley Make Their Millions,
Battle Foreign Competition, and...

112
00:08:29,001 --> 00:08:30,001
Jeff Kalb, West Coast.

113
00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000
Still can't get dates.

114
00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,001
That is absolutely right.

115
00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:34,001
Ten points for the West.

116
00:08:38,001 --> 00:08:40,001
We're going to go next question, Bill.

117
00:08:41,001 --> 00:08:47,001
In the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey,
the Hal 9000 computer indicated

118
00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:49,001
when it first started operating.

119
00:08:50,001 --> 00:08:54,001
Jeff Kalb, West. 1992, January 26th.

120
00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000
I'm afraid that is not the question, Jeff.

121
00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,001
Close, but not quite.

122
00:09:01,001 --> 00:09:04,000
So we'll have to give the question
now to the West Coast and you can get

123
00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,001
20 points for answering this.

124
00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000
The East Coast, I'm sorry, the East Coast.

125
00:09:08,001 --> 00:09:15,000
According to the movie, would Hal be
operational right now on May 1st, 1992?

126
00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,001
All right, Dave Nelson.

127
00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000
The answer is yes.

128
00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,001
We are sticklers, we are sticklers.

129
00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000
However, the next question, Bill.

130
00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,001
According to the movie,
exactly when did Hal start working?

131
00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,001
Dave Nelson, East Coast.

132
00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:47,000
January 12th, 1992.

133
00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:48,001
Absolutely right.

134
00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:55,001
All right, the score is

135
00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:57,000
West Coast 10, East Coast 30.

136
00:09:57,001 --> 00:09:59,000
Here is the next toss-up question, Bill.

137
00:10:00,001 --> 00:10:06,000
Toy company giant Mattel tried to enter
the personal computer business many years

138
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,001
ago, but its entry died an early death.

139
00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000
What was the name of that Mattel computer?

140
00:10:15,001 --> 00:10:16,001
Hello, hello.

141
00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000
All right, John Schock.

142
00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:18,001
In television?

143
00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:20,001
Absolutely right, 10 points for the West.

144
00:10:22,001 --> 00:10:26,001
Okay, we are into our first bonus round
and this will be for you, the East Coast,

145
00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:29,000
so we've got a chance to even
widen your lead a little bit.

146
00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,000
The answer to the subject will be
appropriately orphans, computer orphans.

147
00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:38,001
Chance to get 30 points here in 1985,
three companies discontinued

148
00:10:38,001 --> 00:10:40,000
their line of personal computers.

149
00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000
I'm going to give you the name of the
company and I want you to tell me the name

150
00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000
of the orphan,
the computer that was discontinued.

151
00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:50,000
For 10 points,
the company is Digital Equipment Corporation.

152
00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000
[...]

153
00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,001
Rainbow is correct for 10 points.

154
00:10:56,001 --> 00:10:56,001
[...]

155
00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,001
The company is Coleco.

156
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:04,000
[...]

157
00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000
Please,
please in the audience restrain yourself.

158
00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,001
I know it's difficult.
10 points for the East Coast on Adam.

159
00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:14,001
All right, for the final 10 points in
this bonus round, the company is Apple.

160
00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:18,001
[...]

161
00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,001
Lisa is correct, full 30 points.

162
00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:21,000
Very good.

163
00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000
Okay, the score now.

164
00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,001
The East Coast is ahead by 60 to 20.

165
00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:28,001
The audience is doing very poorly.

166
00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000
Please restrain yourself and
don't yell out the answers.

167
00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:32,000
Bill, the next question.

168
00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,000
Boris Babion is considered to
be the top computer designer

169
00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,001
in the former Soviet Union.

170
00:11:40,001 --> 00:11:44,000
He is currently finishing the design
of his newest supercomputer called

171
00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,001
the Elbrus 3.

172
00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,001
What American computer company...

173
00:11:48,001 --> 00:11:49,001
Dave Nelson, East Coast.

174
00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:50,000
Sun Microsis.

175
00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:51,000
Absolutely right.

176
00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:53,001
Let's finish the question, Bill.

177
00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:58,001
Recently hired, [...]

178
00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000
All right, next question, Bill.
70 to 20 favor the East right now.

179
00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:09,000
C++ has become a popular programming language.

180
00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,001
Where was C++ first developed?

181
00:12:12,001 --> 00:12:13,001
John Schock, West Coast.

182
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:14,001
Bell Labs.

183
00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000
Absolutely right. 10 points for the West.

184
00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:19,001
Sorry, Bill.

185
00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:20,000
Too late.

186
00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:22,001
First come, first served.

187
00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:23,001
Okay, Bill, next.

188
00:12:23,001 --> 00:12:30,000
In 1952, CBS News made computer history
by using a computer for the first time to

189
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,001
predict the winner of the
1952 presidential election.

190
00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:35,001
What computer...

191
00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:37,000
John Warnock, West.

192
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:37,001
Univac.

193
00:12:37,001 --> 00:12:38,001
Univac is correct.

194
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:39,000
[...]

195
00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:40,001
Another 10 points for the West Coast.

196
00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:43,001
Next toss-up question.

197
00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,001
The premier conference for chip
designers is called ISSCC.

198
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,001
What do the letters ISS...

199
00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:54,001
Jeff Kalb, West Coast.

200
00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,001
International Solid State Circuits Conference.

201
00:12:57,001 --> 00:12:59,000
Another 10 points for the West Coast.

202
00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000
Okay, you're catching up here, guys.

203
00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000
Right now the score is East Coast.
70, West Coast. 50.

204
00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,001
Here is your chance, a 30-point bonus round.

205
00:13:08,001 --> 00:13:09,001
Get ready, answer for your captain.

206
00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000
The subject is acronyms.

207
00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:14,000
What do the letters...

208
00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000
I'm going to give you two of them here.

209
00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:19,000
What do the letters DDE and OLE stand for?

210
00:13:23,001 --> 00:13:25,001
DDE is Dynamic Data Exchange.

211
00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:26,001
OLE?

212
00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000
OLE is Object Linking and Embedding.

213
00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000
That is absolutely right for 10 points.

214
00:13:33,001 --> 00:13:34,001
All right, we're closing in.

215
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,001
Here's your next pair of acronyms.

216
00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,001
What do the letters ALU and CRC stand for?

217
00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:48,000
An ALU is an Arithmetic and Logic Unit.

218
00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:49,000
That's one.

219
00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000
[...]

220
00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,001
CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check Zone.

221
00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:56,001
Sometimes called a Cyclic
Redundancy Check Zone.

222
00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:58,000
That's right, a Cyclic Redundancy Check Zone.

223
00:13:58,001 --> 00:14:02,001
Here is the third and final part
of this bonus round on Aquitin.

224
00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,001
We know that EGA stands for Enhanced
Graphics Adapter and that VGA stands

225
00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:09,000
for Video Graphics Array.

226
00:14:09,001 --> 00:14:11,001
What does XGA stand for?

227
00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000
It's the Extended Graphics Adapter.

228
00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000
It's the Enhanced Graphics Adapter.

229
00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:24,001
That's even worse.

230
00:14:27,001 --> 00:14:28,001
I like it the way it is.

231
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,001
At the end of the first round,
the score of West Coast 70, East Coast 70.

232
00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:42,001
[...]

233
00:14:42,001 --> 00:14:49,000
Welcome back to Computer Bowl

234
00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,001
4, The Hassel in the Castle.

235
00:14:51,001 --> 00:14:53,000
This is a television show,
ladies and gentlemen.

236
00:14:54,001 --> 00:14:57,001
This is round two right now
and the score stands at 70

237
00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:59,000
for the West, 70 for the East.

238
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,001
A little confusion on the
last question we just had.

239
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000
The official answer I have is
XGA stands for Extended Graphics

240
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000
Array, not Adapter.

241
00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000
I think the Microsoft dictionary
shows the difference.

242
00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,001
I think Bill might even agree with you.

243
00:15:10,001 --> 00:15:11,000
[...]

244
00:15:11,001 --> 00:15:14,000
But we are going to move on to our questions,
Bill.

245
00:15:14,001 --> 00:15:20,000
The KIM-1, the Altair 8800,
and the Commodore PET were all

246
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000
pioneering microcomputers.

247
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,001
Of those three, which is the only one
which was a single board computer?

248
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,001
Andy Rappaport.

249
00:15:29,001 --> 00:15:30,000
[...] KIM-1.

250
00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:31,000
KIM-1 is correct.

251
00:15:31,001 --> 00:15:32,000
Ten points for East.

252
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:32,001
You're ahead.

253
00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:43,000
In 1975, the first computer game was sold.

254
00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:45,000
It was called Encounter.

255
00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,001
On what medium was it sold?

256
00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,001
John Schock, West Coast.

257
00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:52,000
Paper tape.

258
00:15:52,001 --> 00:15:53,001
Paper tape is absolutely right.

259
00:15:53,001 --> 00:15:56,001
We didn't have to wait
for the multiple choices.

260
00:15:57,001 --> 00:15:58,001
Next question, Bill.

261
00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000
During the 1989 San Francisco earthquake,
many Silicon

262
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000
Valleys got a bit shook up.

263
00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:11,001
Among those affected were Apple,
HP, Orland, Sun, and Tandem.

264
00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000
One of those companies responded
following the earthquake by

265
00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,001
conducting business as usual.

266
00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000
Ruth Ann Quinlan, West.

267
00:16:19,001 --> 00:16:20,001
Orland in the parking lot.

268
00:16:20,001 --> 00:16:21,000
That's right.

269
00:16:21,001 --> 00:16:22,001
Conductive business as usual.

270
00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:24,000
Intense in the parking lot.

271
00:16:24,001 --> 00:16:25,000
Another ten points for the West.

272
00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000
Next question.

273
00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:33,001
The whirlwind, the ENIAC, the EDSAC,
and the BINAC were all important computers

274
00:16:33,001 --> 00:16:35,001
in the development of computing technology.

275
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,001
Two important computer pioneers
were Eckert and Möckley.

276
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000
Of those four computers,
which didn't they work on?

277
00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:46,001
That's the whirlwind.

278
00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:50,000
Yes, Jeff Cowd.

279
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:50,001
The whirlwind.

280
00:16:50,001 --> 00:16:51,001
The whirlwind is right.

281
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,001
Which one did they not work on?

282
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:54,001
The answer is the whirlwind.

283
00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:58,000
Okay, next question, Bill.

284
00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,001
In 1976, personal computer history
was made when the first Apple

285
00:17:04,001 --> 00:17:06,000
I computers were sold.

286
00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:10,001
The first batch of Apple's I's
were sold to one organization.

287
00:17:11,001 --> 00:17:12,001
What was that organization?

288
00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,000
[...]

289
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:15,001
The Burnray Burn West?

290
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:16,001
The Bight Shop.

291
00:17:16,001 --> 00:17:17,001
The Bight Shop is correct.

292
00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:20,001
I bought them.

293
00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:25,001
All right, the score right now,
West Coast 110, East Coast 80, or

294
00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,000
behind by 30, and guess what?

295
00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,001
Here's a 30-point bonus round.

296
00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:30,001
Are you ready?

297
00:17:30,001 --> 00:17:32,001
And the subject is Apple Computer.

298
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,001
According to the book, Accidental Empires,
the prototypes of Apple's first laser

299
00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:43,000
writer printer were given to
three computer companies.

300
00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:45,000
Can you name at least two of them?

301
00:17:47,001 --> 00:17:51,000
Who got the prototypes of Apple's
first laser writer printer?

302
00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:52,001
I need two company names.

303
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000
And I need it quickly.

304
00:17:59,000 --> 00:17:59,001
Time, time, time.

305
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,001
Microsoft and Aldis.

306
00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:03,001
Aldis is too.

307
00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:04,000
Very good.

308
00:18:08,001 --> 00:18:10,000
Modis was the third, by the way.

309
00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:14,000
Okay, for your next shot at 10
points in this bonus round on Apple.

310
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,001
According to Jean-Louis Gasset,
the finder on the original Apple Macintosh had

311
00:18:18,001 --> 00:18:20,001
another name during development.

312
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000
What was it called then?

313
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000
The searcher, the seeker, or the flounder?

314
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,001
Consult and give me an answer.

315
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000
The searcher, the seeker, or the flounder?

316
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:37,001
The seeker.

317
00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:39,000
That's incorrect.

318
00:18:39,001 --> 00:18:40,001
It was called the flounder.

319
00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:44,000
All right, last chance for 10 points.

320
00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:45,001
Now you're only 20 points behind.

321
00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:51,000
When the Apple III first came out,
there was a problem with loose ICs.

322
00:18:51,001 --> 00:18:56,000
To remedy the problem, the company told
Apple III owners to do something to make

323
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,001
sure their integrated circuits
were firmly in their sockets.

324
00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000
What were the users instructed to do?

325
00:19:01,001 --> 00:19:05,001
One, was it drop the computer
one foot onto a flat surface?

326
00:19:06,001 --> 00:19:09,001
Two, push each chip into its socket by hand?

327
00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:11,001
Or three, stand on the motherboard?

328
00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:15,000
The drop the computer one foot.

329
00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:16,001
Believe it or not, that's the answer.

330
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,001
Drop the computer one foot on the ground.

331
00:19:18,001 --> 00:19:20,000
Ten more points for the East.

332
00:19:20,001 --> 00:19:26,000
Okay, at the end of this bonus round,
the West just ahead by

333
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,001
110 to 10.

334
00:19:27,001 --> 00:19:28,001
Next toss-up, Bill.

335
00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:35,000
In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an essay called,
As We May Think.

336
00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:40,001
In it, he proposed a revolutionary new,
nonlinear information retrieval system.

337
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,001
47 years later,
that concept is now known as what?

338
00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:51,000
Hello out there.

339
00:19:52,001 --> 00:19:54,000
We have Vern Rayburn of the West.

340
00:19:54,001 --> 00:19:55,000
Pin computing.

341
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:56,001
No, I'm sorry.

342
00:19:56,001 --> 00:19:57,001
Good plug.

343
00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000
Good plug.

344
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,001
That is not the right answer.

345
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,001
We have an answer from the
East Coast for 10 points.

346
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:07,001
Quickly.

347
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,001
Anybody want to try it?

348
00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:10,000
Going once.

349
00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:11,000
Going twice.

350
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:13,001
We're out of time.

351
00:20:13,001 --> 00:20:15,000
The answer is hypertext.

352
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,001
Okay, next question, Bill.

353
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,001
What was the first computer
to control a machine tool?

354
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,001
Was it the ENIAC whirlwind or the Mobidic?

355
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,001
John shock, West Coast.

356
00:20:31,001 --> 00:20:32,000
The Mobidic.

357
00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,001
Mobidic at MIT is the correct answer.

358
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000
I'm very sorry.

359
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000
I'm very, very sorry.

360
00:20:41,001 --> 00:20:42,000
You're wrong.

361
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000
You guys write so many times, I fell for it.

362
00:20:45,001 --> 00:20:46,000
No, I'm sorry.

363
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,001
It was the whirlwind at MIT.

364
00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:48,001
The whirlwind at MIT.

365
00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:50,000
Okay, you guys don't get those 10 points.

366
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,001
When we go along, it's 110 to 100.

367
00:20:51,001 --> 00:20:52,001
You're still ahead.

368
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:56,001
Next question, Bill.

369
00:21:01,001 --> 00:21:02,000
[...]

370
00:21:03,001 --> 00:21:04,001
Will McCrull.

371
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:05,001
The whirlwind.

372
00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:07,001
Okay, now hold it.

373
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,001
Judges, judges, judges.

374
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:09,001
What's your verdict here?

375
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000
Are they going to chance to answer that or not?

376
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:11,001
No way.

377
00:21:11,001 --> 00:21:13,001
I think we should let him pass quickly.

378
00:21:14,001 --> 00:21:16,000
He already answered that one earlier.

379
00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:17,001
He gave the answer.

380
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000
We're going to have to let that one pass,
but we'd

381
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,001
like you to make a mistake in the moment.

382
00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:23,000
[...] going to do you favor of
the East Coast in the future.

383
00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:23,001
Okay, fair enough.

384
00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:27,000
Thank you.

385
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:27,001
Your honor, next question.

386
00:21:28,001 --> 00:21:34,000
In the 1960s, a digital computing technology
was announced based on the movement

387
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000
of fluids or compressed
gases rather than electrons.

388
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,001
What was the name of this technology?

389
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:42,001
Burnray, Burnwest.

390
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:43,001
Fluadetics.

391
00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:47,000
Well, judges, I'm after you again.

392
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000
Is that the correct answer?

393
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000
Fluadetics, says Vern Rayburn.

394
00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:56,001
The judges say no, the answer is fluidics.

395
00:21:57,001 --> 00:21:59,000
Well, how about it, Don?

396
00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:01,000
You know, you had [...
] get in with us to do the answer.

397
00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:03,000
And then he had to get fluidics.

398
00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:05,000
You really did.

399
00:22:05,001 --> 00:22:06,001
Oh, it's rough up here.

400
00:22:08,001 --> 00:22:10,000
That was such an easy one.

401
00:22:10,001 --> 00:22:11,000
Andy Rappaport.

402
00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:12,000
Fluidics.

403
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000
You can't give him the question
after you've given him the answer.

404
00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:16,001
Yeah, yeah.

405
00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,000
That's my fault, I guess.

406
00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:19,000
What do you say, judges?

407
00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:20,000
I think that's my fault.

408
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,001
You'll get another shot.

409
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000
It is one time.

410
00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:31,001
Hey, Stuart,
we said you got to give him the points.

411
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:32,000
Give him the points.

412
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000
Don't make any more mistakes,
but give him the points this time.

413
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000
Give him the points.

414
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Well, you have to do that.

415
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:36,000
What do you say?

416
00:22:36,001 --> 00:22:37,000
Give him the points.

417
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000
You gave him the answer.

418
00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:43,001
It is 110 to 110.

419
00:22:44,001 --> 00:22:45,001
Can we go ahead, Noggin?

420
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000
Next question.

421
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,000
The PDP-1 computer had a
word size of how many bits?

422
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,000
Jeff Cowell. 18 bits. 18 bits is correct.
10 points to the West.

423
00:22:58,001 --> 00:22:59,000
Great, great.

424
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000
Computer viruses were much
in the news this year.

425
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000
There is a book called Computer
Viruses by author John McCaffie.

426
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000
In that book, McCaffie names what he
believed to be the first computer

427
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,001
to be infected by a virus.

428
00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:21,001
Was it the Xerox 530,
the PDP-11, or the IBM 360?

429
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,001
First computer to be infected by a Xerox,
John Schock.

430
00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:27,001
IBM 360.

431
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000
That is not the correct answer.
10 points over here on the East.

432
00:23:32,001 --> 00:23:33,001
This could be a big 10 points.

433
00:23:33,001 --> 00:23:34,000
You would like to...

434
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:34,001
Yes, Bill.

435
00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:36,000
I'm sorry, Dave.

436
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:36,001
PDP-11.

437
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000
That's also wrong.

438
00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:43,000
Which means the answer was the Xerox 530.

439
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
We're going into a bonus round now.

440
00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:50,000
The score is,
the West slightly ahead, 120 to 110.

441
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,001
This is a bonus round before the West Coast.

442
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,001
A chance to widen your lead.

443
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000
The subject is the Alto computer.

444
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,001
What for the draw?

445
00:24:01,001 --> 00:24:02,001
What for the draw?

446
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,001
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,
known as Xerox PARC, is

447
00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:09,000
famous for many computer innovations.

448
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000
One such innovation was the early
development of the Alto computer, which used

449
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,001
a mouse for an input device.

450
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000
How many buttons were on the Alto mouse?

451
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,001
There were a couple different versions,
but the most

452
00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:23,001
common one was a three button mouse.

453
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000
Three is the correct answer, we'll take.

454
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
And I have one at home.

455
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,001
All right, let's see how good you guys were.

456
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,001
The three buttons were color coded.

457
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000
What three colors were on the buttons?

458
00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:40,000
They were only a couple, red, blue and yellow.

459
00:24:40,001 --> 00:24:42,000
That's right,
another 10 points for the West, okay.

460
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,001
The last chance of 10 points on the Alto.

461
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,001
The Alto computer came with
a built in text editor.

462
00:24:49,001 --> 00:24:53,000
What was the name of the text editor,
Alpha, Bravo or Tango?

463
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:54,001
It was Bravo.

464
00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:57,001
Bravo is the correct answer, another 10 points.

465
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:58,001
Okay, where are we?

466
00:24:58,001 --> 00:24:59,001
Did we get extra credit for who wrote it?

467
00:24:59,001 --> 00:25:02,001
We are at the end of round two.

468
00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:06,000
The West Coast is ahead by 150 to 110.

469
00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:07,000
In spite of everything.

470
00:25:07,001 --> 00:25:08,001
In spite of everything.

471
00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:13,000
All right, for those of you here in the
Park Plaza Castle in Boston, and for

472
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000
those of you watching live
via satellite in Palo Alto in

473
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000
Redmond, please stay seated.

474
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,001
We'll resume the computer bowl in
just a minute after we take a very

475
00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:23,001
brief non-commercial break.

476
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000
Now, for those of you watching this at
home on television, that's it for this

477
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,001
special edition of Computer Chronicles.

478
00:25:29,001 --> 00:25:33,000
If you know how it all ends up,
you'll have to come back next week and watch

479
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,001
the last half of the computer bowl.

480
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000
Rounds three and four, more computer
trivia as we determine whether the East or

481
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000
the West earns the title Computer
Masters of the Universe.

482
00:25:42,001 --> 00:25:43,001
We'll see you here next week.

483
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000
Computer Chronicles has been
made possible in part by

484
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,001
PC Connection and MacConnection.

485
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000
Mail order software and hardware
peripherals for the PC and the Macintosh.

486
00:25:58,001 --> 00:26:03,001
And the Software Publishers Association,
providers of educational materials to

487
00:26:03,001 --> 00:26:06,000
help manage software. Don't copy that floppy.

488
00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:11,000
Video cassette copies of
this program are available.

489
00:26:11,001 --> 00:26:15,000
Computer Chronicles also publishes a
companion newsletter containing details on

490
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,001
products demonstrated,
plus background information on program topics.

491
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000
To order a video cassette or a subscription
to the newsletter, call 1-800-366

492
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,001
-9484 or write Computer Chronicles.

493
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,001
Please specify program subject for tapes.
All orders include a free software

494
00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:34,001
program for auditing software use.

495
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,000
This is

496
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,001
[...]

497
00:27:27,001 --> 00:27:32,000
[...]